Date of Birth: 25th September, 1974

POSITION

• Chargé de Recherche, CNRS.
• Laboratoire 3S-R (Sols, Solides et Structures-Risques), Grenoble, France.
• CNRS / Grenoble Universities
• Domaine Universitaire, BP 53
• 38041 Grenoble - France
• e-mail: stephen.hall@hmg.inpg.fr
• tel: 0476 82 51 86

EDUCATION

• October 1996 – February 2000: PhD, School of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds; Title: “Rock fracture characterisation and seismic anisotropy: application to ocean bottom seismic data” - NERC/CASE(Shell)
• October 1993 – June 1996: BSc Geophysics; 1st(hons), University of Leeds, Dissertation: “Correlation between eruptive activity, seismic displacement and pressure pulses on Stromboli”

ACADEMIC HISTORY

• November 2003-March 2006: Marie-Curie Research Fellow (Project “iGEM”), Laboratoire 3S (Sols Solides et Structures), Grenoble, France.
• April 2000-November 2003: Post-Doctoral Research Associate in reservoir geophysics; Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh; Edinburgh Time-lapse Project and the Robust Fracture Identification Project.

HONORS/KEYNOTE AND GUEST LECTURES/STATE-OF-THE-ART PRESENTATIONS

• EAGE Distinguished Lecturer 2001-2002 - awarded on the basis paper at the 2000 EAGE conference. Invited lectures in UK and Croatia.
• Keynote Lecture at the Geological Society of London Structurally Complex Reservoirs International Conference, 28 February - 2 March 2006
• Invited lecture at the Mechanics of Natural Solids Workshop, September 2009, Horto, Greece

PUBLICATIONS
Author of about 20 scientific papers in international journals/books, plus about 30 conference papers. Selected Recent Publications:

• Larose, E. and Hall S.A., 2008, Monitoring stress related velocity variation in concrete with a 2.10−5 relative resolution using diffuse ultrasound, accepted for J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
• Hall, S.A., Kendall, J-M., Fisher, Q., and Maddock, J., 2008, Crack density tensor inversion for analysis of changes in rock frame architecture, Geophysical Journal International, 173, 577-592.
• Hall, S.A., 2006, A methodology for 7D warping and deformation monitoring using time-lapse seismic data, Geophysics, 71, O21–O31.
• Hall, S.A., de Sanctis, F. and Viggiani, G., 2006, Monitoring fracture propagation in a soft rock (Neapolitan Tuff) using acoustic emissions and digital images, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 163 2171–2204.
• Hall, S.A., MacBeth, C., Barkved, O.I. and Wild, P., 2005, Cross-matching with interpreted warping of 3D streamer and 3D OBC data at Valhall for time-lapse assessment, Geophysical Prospecting, 53, 283-297.
• Hall, S.A., Kendall, J-M. and van der Baan, M., 2004, Some comments on the effects of lower-mantle anisotropy on SKS and SKKS phases, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 146, 469–481.
• Hall, S.A., and Kendall, J-M., 2003, Fracture characterisation at Valhall: application of P-wave AVOA analysis to a 3D ocean-bottom data set: Geophysics, 68, 1150-1160